Marsh Award for Climate Change Research | |
The Marsh Award for Climate Change Research run in association with the British Ecological Society. It is awarded for an outstanding contribution to climate change research. The Award is an honorarium of £1,000 plus a certificate and is open to ecologists from anywhere in the world. | |
The 2009 winner is Professor John GraceJohn Grace is Professor of Environmental Biology at the School of GeoSciences in the University of Edinburgh. He is a former president of the British Ecological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His earlier work is on aspects of plant physiology as influenced by the natural environment. Current interests include: carbon fluxes in disturbed forests; carbon dioxide sinks in the tropics; savanna ecosystems; methane fluxes from tropical ecosystems; innovation in instrumentation for measuring plant-atmosphere interactions. He has published over 300 papers and chapters in peer-reviewed international journals and symposia; he has edited or authored ten books, and was the founder co-editor of Functional Ecology. His current citation rate exceeds 400 per year. He participates in research consortia funded by NERC: Amazonica, TROBIT and he is a PI in the UK’s National Centre for Earth Observation. He currently participates in a number of projects funded by the European Union; CarboEurope-IP, ICOS, IMECC, Miombo (the latter is a carbon project he leads in Mozambique, one of the poorest countries of the world). He has designed, led and taught many MSc programmes, and currently leads a research MSc in Global Environmental Change. Email: |
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